Metal Injection

Skyrim was meant to have Amon Amarth in it. It's basically the world I've always imagined for their music in video game form, and now we can all finally add them to it.

SPRING BREAK! Which means no one is home, no one is buying records. Consequently, not much coming out this week, but there are a few gems sneaking in under the radar.

Vocalist Johannes Eckerström of Swedish carnival metal band AVATAR visits NYC and goes sight-seeing at Ripley's Believe It Or Not in Times Square. It's safe to say Johannes fit right in. Go see Avatar on tour.

Directed by Johan Carlén and shot in Sweden's largest amusement park along side the notorious American circus side-show act,HELLZAPOPPIN, the video no doubtably speaks for itself. Or, as FEARnet states , "It's the most fun you'll ever have with a condom and a power drill!"

If you read my intro to last year's list, you already know how strongly I feel about music, an expressive art form, being forced into a competitive sport-like structure. I do however, love to share my passion of metal with the world every day, and as some of you know, spend more time seeking out [...]

As some of us intelligent people might know, there have got to be a few reasons why black metal weapons look so primitive and are being used as part of many a band's fashionable poses in black metal photo shoots. To cut a long and analytical lecture short, these reasons can be basically broken down [...]

Well this has been a crazy week for me, personally, just readjusting to being back on land and not on a cruise ship. Many emails were sent and answered and work was caught up on, but most importantly, the metal kept on. Here are the biggest stories of the week: Seeing as though we got [...]

On the heels of wrapping up the most extreme tour of the Summer, we present another thrilling advice column from The Red Chord bassist Greg Weeks. Whether its music, girls of life in general, Greg is always right. Submit your inquiries to askmeimright@metalinjection.net and Greg will solve all your problems. All questions are presented as [...]

I am so over 3D movies! It's absurd. After Avatar blew my mind with the type of visual effects 3D is capable of, every 3D movie thereafter has been a bullshit upconverter piece of drek. It's going to be at least another 6 months until we get true native 3D movies and by then I [...]

On the road again! Frank, Sean (of Belly Full of Hell) and I (Rob) are currently in a car fighting over who controls the iPod on our way to the New England Metal & Hardcore festival which promises to be one giant rager. Once arriving in lovely (not really) Worcester, MA, we will be meeting [...]

It's safe to say that a sizeable percentage of the Guitar Hero audience are metal heads, and every metal head would dream of not having to suffer through pussy songs from the likes of BLOC PARTY and THE POLICE to get to the good stuff. Looks like some Playstation 2 modders agree. As some kind [...]

> TRAP THEM had the mixing of their upcoming album, “Seance Prime” finished on Sunday by Kurt Ballou at Godcity Studios. The band are also working on an EP. The full-length album is expected to be released in fall through Deathwish Inc. Until then, you can hear some songs at their MySpace page. > THE [...]

OBITUARY, HOLY MOSES and AVATAR  have added more dates to their European tour:January 03 – Holland Zwolle – Hedon January 04 – Holland Tilburg – O 13 January 05 – Germany Osnabrueck – Hyde Park January 06 – Germany Hamburg – Markthalle January 08 – Poland Warsaw – Proxima January 09 – Poland – Krakow [...]

Today is just full of video game news. According to ShackNews, a total of eight songs have been revealed for inclusion in Harmonix Music Systems' ambitious upcoming rhythm game Rock Band. Of the eight listed songs, an impressive six are drawn from the master tapes of each band's original recording: THE WHO's "Won't Get Fooled [...]

As we've previously reported, the makers of Guitar Hero are taking it to the next level, with their newest creation, "Rock Band". The new game, slated to be released late Fall/early Winter will allow multiplay for 4 people each playing 4 different instruments (guitar, bass, drums, vocals). The latest issue of Game Informer has a [...]